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...block for nearly a year. Religious and other special-interest groups made inquiries but were turned away as unsuitable owners; other prospective buyers were unwilling to absorb the maga zine's hefty operating losses and its liability of $3 million in prepaid subscriptions. Editor Lewis H. Lapham and two partners failed in a last-hour rescue attempt...
...TIME senior editor, succeeded Morris, adding earnest stories on the environment and a section called "Tools for Living," a kind of survival guide for the bean-sprout generation. Dizzied by the Morris zig and the Shnayerson zag, droves of readers and advertisers drifted away. In 1976, a year after Lapham took over, only 23% of subscribers renewed. (The rate is back up to 50%, but advertising has not grown apace.) Along with the Atlantic Monthly and Saturday Review, both of which have changed hands in the past few months, Harper's has been hurt by the rise of less...
...publications have sold advertising jointly, an arrangement made possible by their similar circulation and demographics. Editorially the two monthlies go their separate ways. Harper's, founded seven years before the Atlantic, is usually feistier. Harper's tone is set by the crotchety essays of Editor Lewis H. Lapham, 45, who slays the fashions of the moment with 18th century prose. Circulation is down 68,000 since 1970, however, and Harper's owner for the past 15 years, John Cowles Jr. of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co., is said to be ready to unload...
...monthly "Easy Chair" columns and longer articles, Harper's Editor Lewis H. Lapham also frequently takes a conservative tilt. Lapham bridles, for example, at the all-out conservationist position in the energy debate. "People want what they want," he maintains, "and they will pay whatever prices they must, and so it is no use [for the Government] to tell them what's good for them." Lapham inveighs bitterly against a variety of adversaries and attitudes, including the empire building of major cultural institutions. He has no quarrel with readers who complain that his magazine often dwells, in classic...
While the change in tone was not made for box-office reasons, it does serve to distinguish Harper's from its chief and more liberal rival, the Atlantic. Nonetheless, Harper's continues to print liberal and even left-wing authors. One of Lapham's convictions is that the U.S. system requires not only debate but also intellectual confrontation: "Democracy means that you and I must fight. Democracy means a kind of Darwinism for ideas." Though he wants to preserve "what is best in our traditions," he insists that he is not at all conservative "in the Republican...